{"id":3113,"date":"2026-01-04T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3113\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:28:08","slug":"25-are-dead-and-14-more-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-nigerias-yobe-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3113\/","title":{"rendered":"25 are dead and 14 more missing after boat capsizes in Nigeria&#8217;s Yobe state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">YOBE, Nigeria &#8212; A passenger boat has capsized in northern Nigeria\u2019s Yobe state, leaving at least 25 people dead while 14 others remained missing, emergency services said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The boat was carrying residents who had gone to the local market, while some were involved in fishing or farming when it capsized along the Yobe River in Yobe state\u2019s Garbi town on Saturday night, the Yobe emergency management agency.emergency services said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Out of the 52 passengers on board the boat, 13 were rescued and are receiving medical assistance, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\u201cSearch and rescue operations are ongoing, with security agencies, emergency responders, and local community volunteers working tirelessly to locate the missing passengers and recover bodies,\u201d the agency added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YOBE, Nigeria &#8212; A passenger boat has capsized in northern Nigeria\u2019s Yobe state, leaving at least 25 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2725,1140,645,2572,83,2571,762,122,2570,242],"class_list":{"0":"post-3113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-2725","9":"tag-agriculture","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-boat-and-ship-accidents","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-drownings","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-nigeria","16":"tag-philanthropy","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}